Not today anyway. In the early days of the Internet it really did happen. As I discovered. It was a lot like the way crows behave. In an experiment one crow was captured and caged by a person wearing a costume. Fortunately they were wearing a mask as you’ll soon see. The crow was released unharmed and it wasn’t tormented even a little. But, from then on every time the experimenter went outside wearing that costume they were mobbed by crows. For over a decade. The crows didn’t just remember, they shared the news and passed it onto their young. Luckily the costume included a mask because crows recognise faces. That’s what flaming was like in the early days online if you dared to offer something for sale. I had to put on a mask and a costume to be able to avoid the flaming, even from people who hadn’t seen my sales page. Tossers. These days, selling online is normal enough that it’s easier and safer. Delivering products can be an issue. There are many products that can help with delivery, some have security built in, some don’t. Most of these cost you money and time. The most robust platform I have found for product delivery is Amazon S3, but it’s a convoluted process to manage the permissions, and it defaults to private, so if you do want to deliver to others you have to change permissions. I can do this pretty easily now, but I do still get tired of the messing around. So, I built a tool to act as the interface to Amazon S3 that runs on my desktop. You do still have to do some set up inside the Amazon ecosystem, but you only have to do that once. Then you use your desktop tool to manage everything as if S3 was a folder on your computer. I’m not selling this at the moment, and I’m never going to make a desktop app for you. I think this is better. You build the app yourself on your computer using Claude. The prompts might work with other AI tools, I don’t know because I haven’t tested. Building it yourself though allows you to customise it to suit your needs. You’ll download the PDF here. https://link.ckv.to/s3-file-manager You can have this running in less than an hour. By the way, that link was built with the desktop tool. The link is a temporary one and expires. Wed 23 Sep 2026, 11:30 PM (ACST). Regards, |
